Think about that legacy for a moment: One of Obama’s big claims to fame is that he oversaw an economy that gave out more free SNAP food than any other time in U.S. history. Or, another way to see it — more Americans depended on government SNAP dole-outs to feed their families during Obama’s time in the White House than at any other time in U.S. history.

A couple months ago, he changed the way the Department of Agriculture determined disbursements for SNAP by making the priority for recipients a back-to-work game plan. The strategy’s working.

“More than 2.8 million people dropped off food stamps since President Trump’s first full month in office,” Breitbart reported, citing USDA statistics.

And since?

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“During Trump’s first year and a half as president,” the news outlet went on, “many people discontinued their SNAP benefits due to the Trump administration’s attempts to reform SNAP at both the federal and state levels of government.”

Here’s another reason people are getting off the government dole: the economy. Unemployment’s hovering around the 4 percent mark, GDP growth is on its way to hitting 5 percent, consumer confidence is climbing, corporations are hiring and giving out bonuses — and all that’s having the effect of lowering the burden on taxpayers to provide for welfare and entitlement programs.

After all, employed Americans can feed themselves.

And that is the magic touch of this administration versus the Obama days. The previous White House wanted the people to rely on government in order to gain and keep control.

The Trump White House wants people to provide for themselves — as was intended by this free market system.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.

What makes me laugh, one of the comments i saw in a local newspaper (at the library) from a few months back, was some woman claiming “the welfare state does NOT create dependency on the government”… Come again? if that’s the case, why then do we see generation after generation of the SAME famil going on welfare, state after state, city after city??

Ask Obama how a country designed for SELF-government can be populated with people who cannot even govern themselves to obtain the basic necessities of life? His failed socialism is the antithesis of successful SELF-government . In the former all men are created equal by politicians, where in the latter all men acquire equality from God. History has proven that worshipping fallible politicians over an infallible God only results in the equal opportunity to be poor, powerless and vulnerable. Who wants to live in Chicago, the American socialist canary in the coal mine now gasping to breath free.

The previous Obama White House wanted the people to rely on government in order to gain and keep control.
The Liberal Democrats are still trying this game with the illegal immigrants, support them, feed them, protect them and get them to illegally vote for their providers.
Federal law is supposed to prevent non-citizens from voting in federal elections. BUT they can vote in local elections and create sanctuary cities to influence federal elections in favor of the demented Liberal Democrats.

I have been behind illegals at checkout lines where I have personally witnessed them pulling out as many as 7 or 8 EBT cards to pay for items. When I get to the cashier I often ask the simple question “don’t you have to check any ID when someone is using so many different EBT cards to pay for stuff?” and usually the answer I get is “No, my manager says its ok as long as they have enough to pay for their items.” So there are many businesses out there that don’t care how they get paid and are enabling this type of fraud. With all of the technology that we have in this country you would think that these merchants would require some type of ID verification before allowing this to continue. But then again who do I think I’m kidding as this would ultimately hurt their bottom line.

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